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The top United Nations envoy to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) today expressed hope that the Security Council will shortly approve a request for 3,000 additional troops to buttress blue helmets already on the ground in the country's east, the scene of fierce recent conflict.
The management of NigComSat Limited has appealed to the House of Representatives Committee on Science and Technology to prevail on the Federal Executive Council (FEC) to approve the utilisation of $500 million (N59 billion) concessionary loan for the construction of NigComSat 2 and 3 advanced series.
Groundwater - water located beneath the ground in soil or rock formations - is a secure source of water that if properly managed can last for centuries. The challenge is how to locate it and monitor the effects of its use.
Finance Minister Trevor Manuel yesterday added his voice to warnings that the ruling African National Congress's (ANC's) leftist allies risked damaging the national economy by pressing for policies that would dampen growth and drive away desperately needed foreign investment.
The Egyptian club Al-Ahly of Cairo have won the African Champions League trophy for the sixth time, winning 4-2 on aggegrate over Coton Sport of Cameroon. They concluded their victory with a 2-2 away draw following a 2-0 home win. Al-Ahly has now won more soccer titles than any other club in Africa.
AN Army Major and five other soldiers have been jailed for life for selling over 7,000 arms of various descriptions to the Niger Delta militants.
Health systems on the continent are riddled with inadequate policies, strategies, lack of institutional capacity, poor scientific review mechanisms and weak funding for research in the public and private sector, said Luis Sambo, regional director of the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Africa.
Glen View 5 Primary School in one of Harare's high-density suburbs is deserted. Classrooms are empty, desks and chairs are piled up in corners and instruction charts are peeling off the walls. Yet, the school's third term is in full swing.
THE fuel shortage has worsened, forcing dealers to raise pump prices and ration the products.
How can governance be improved to give development a chance in Africa? Political theorist Patrick Chabal believes a role has to be found for traditional methods of accountability to be used alongside formal systems recognised in the West.
Khartoum has long maintained a studious silence over its suspicions that the Kenyan government was assisting the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), which governs the semi-autonomous south of Sudan to replenish its armament.
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is working with authorities in Burundi to better protect the country's albino children in the wake of a brutal crime in which a six-year-old girl was shot and dismembered, apparently in the mistaken belief of some locals that the body parts have magical qualities.
Youth wings of the ruling political parties in neighbouring countries appear to have literally taken over the running of those parties. In fact, they are running the governments since their parties are in power.
International Trade Union Confederation, an amalgam of workers in five continents, yesterday set agenda for Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, and urged him to bring to bear the value of the trade union movement in his activities and policy pronouncements.
Bauchi State Governor, Malam Isa Yuguda last Friday returned to the classroom as a voluntary teacher of secondary school students. An Economics graduate of the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, the Governor taught 'Production' in Economics to one of the SSS 3 classes at Government Girls Science College, Bauchi.
Indications have emerged that the Nigerian Telecommunications Ltd (NITEL) may not get a core investor in February 2009 after all.
Since Lagos-based lawyer, Mr. Festus Keyamo, challenged the leadership of the House of Representatives under Hon. Demeji Bankole to explain its role in the approval given for the purchase of 380 Peugeot 407 cars for the oversight functions of the House committees, the House has not known peace.
As reactions continue to trail the presidential elections in the United States of America, Nigeria has been urged to begin to educate citizens on the need to adopt the electronic voting method.
There was a forlorn hope that Nigeria's political elite would learn a positive lesson from the Èlan with which Senator John McCain, the defeated Republican presidential candidate, gracefully conceded defeat on the fourth of November. Alas, despite the posturing about being elated with Barrack Obama's election as the 44th President of the United States of America, it is obvious that ...
Cadbury Nigeria Plc and two of its executive directors are to be probed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over misstatements in the company's 2004-2005 annual report.
When the Lagos State government came up with the idea of setting up Rapid Response Squad (RRS) few years ago, it had one major objective to give the robbers terrorising the state the battle of their lives and free the state of terror. Former Governor Ahmed Bola Tinubu, who set it up, gave the unit the needed support even though there seemed to be no proportionate result. The excuse then was that ...
AN APPARENT attempt by the African National Congress (ANC) to call an early election to catch its opponents unprepared seems to have backfired.
LAWYERS for Rand Merchant Bank (RMB) lobbied hard with other senior counsel at the Pretoria High Court yesterday to keep the provisional curator's report on the collapse of online brokerage Dealstream under wraps.
Nigerian Telecommunications Limited (NITEL) shareholdings conceded to workers of NigComSat, Investment International London Limited (IILL) and NITEL from the government's share of 49 per cent may alter the plan to privatise the first national carrier.
On Tuesday, the General Court Martial (GCM) in Kaduna sentenced to life imprisonment Major Suleiman Alabi Akubo and five other soldiers for selling arms to the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND).
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